The racist, Alabama-based SPLC is a tax-exempt organization. Its CEO and president is attorney J. Richard Cohen, who was part of the Countering Violent Extremism Working Group of the Department of Homeland Security in 2010.

The SPLC operates a covert spy network targeting primarily politically- and religiously-oriented white citizens, organizations, and publications; institutes civil lawsuits to destroy organizations and individuals by sullying their reputations and bankrupting them—an end run around the First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech and association; and cooperates on a large scale behind closed doors with government agencies to achieve the same objective.

The SPLC works with, instructs, and sets racial and ideological agendas for local, state, and federal police agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, supplying data on private citizens and groups that it is illegal for the government to collect.

The SPLC also produces highly-influential anti-white, anti-conservative, and anti-Christian propaganda widely utilized by the Establishment press, academia, schools, and so on to defame and marginalize American targets.

The Great White Threat

Rabbi-attorney Howard A. Mandell, Chairman, Board of Directors, SPLC

The most striking feature of this year’s list is the nearly deserted landscape of pro-white groups ordinarily targeted by the organization. As a result, staffers have moved Left on the political spectrum into mainstream conservatism in order to find new “threats” to offer their Jewish-Leftwing-government constituency.

There are also an extraordinarily high number of non-whites on the new list. As everyone knows, SPLC enemies lists are whiter than a GOP convention. They never look like America. Jews are virtually never represented, and blacks are named only if they are anti-Jewish.

I am uncertain of the ethnicity of two men on the list, Michael Boldin and Lou Engle. They could be white or Jewish. I have subjectively classified Boldin as Jewish and Engle as white.

In addition, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has said in interviews that he is part-Amerindian and one-quarter Mexican, inflating the number of non-whites even further, if true. For now, I have listed him as white, but Rhodes illustrates once again the ongoing process of racial blurring, dilution, and blending-away of the white race.

Of the 30 names on the list, then, an estimated 24 (80%) are white, four are Jewish, one is Syrian-Lebanese, and one is black.

The Syrian-Lebanese is WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah, 57 (Patriot Movement), and the lone black is New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, 46.

The 24 whites on the list include one female, Virginia Abernethy. They range in age from 29 (Kevin DeAnna) to 77 (Abernethy), with an average age of 55 and a median age of 59.

For a list of “new” leaders of the “radical right,” this is a pretty old group.

Among the American revolutionaries Benjamin Franklin was the oldest, and his life is worth studying for multiple reasons. One of them: white survival now depends largely on the radicalization of an older generation.

If you’re comparatively young, I cannot impress upon you strongly enough that tempus fugit—time flies. Unfortunately, even when stated as baldly as this, it is impossible to completely grasp the overwhelming significance of this truth except in retrospect.

With each passing year there are fewer and fewer whites. And the surveillance and persecution of the small minority opposed to anti-white racism, genocide, and totalitarianism will continue to intensify.

Following are the names of the individuals on the list broken down by the SPLC’s ideological labels. In truth, Jews and government probably regard all subjects in pretty much the same light: as anti-Semites, “neo-Nazis,” “racists,” “haters,” and, though the term is studiously avoided here, “domestic terrorists.” This, at any rate, is what the profiles themselves suggest.

The number of people included in each category is shown in parentheses.

I’ve moved James Timothy Turner, the only person classified as belonging to the Sovereign Citizens Movement, into this category.

Talk radio host Alex Jones is characterized as a “conspiracy”-minded libertarian who “exploits racial animosities.” The authors miss the irony of those charges.

Arguably the most important member not only of the Patriot Movement category, but of the entire list—at least in theory—is Oath Keepers founder and new listee Stewart Rhodes.

Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate, former US Army paratrooper, and Ron Paul staffer, in 2009 founded Oath Keepers, an organization of active military and police personnel who promise to adhere to their oaths to uphold the US Constitution.

If on the level, such an organization poses a serious threat to Jews and government, just as the SPLC implies.

Beyond the threshold question of authenticity, however, Oath Keepers is obviously a sitting duck for infiltration and subversion.

The SPLC is notable for its solicitousness toward big government, particularly the anti-white, police state elements with which it maintains intimate ties. This explains the group’s strong emphasis upon challenges to government authority from the right.

The Left, including the radical Left, is evidently viewed as the ship of state’s helmsman, and hence an integral component of the ruling class.

In its profile of Abernethy, the SPLC claims that the American Third Position Party (A3P), with which she is affiliated, “may be the most important hate group in America at the moment”—which conveniently overlooks formidable rivals like their own organization and the ADL, and is quite revealing about the state of the pro-white movement.

The SPLC takes credit for having Professor MacDonald’s teaching duties reduced and generating an attack by academic colleagues on his professional work.

It says of the Council of Conservative Citizens’ Kyle Rogers that he “posts anti-Semitic tirades under the name ‘Valhalla’ on Stormfront.” So either Rogers voluntarily revealed his true identity in selected posts or in his Stormfront profile accessible to other registered members (including SPLC spies), or the organization has illegitimate access to such confidential data.

The Jews call Jared Taylor’s ideas “crudely white supremacist,” but generously acknowledge that he is not anti-Semitic. However, they are pressuring him, both from within and without, to ban “anti-Semites” from attending American Renaissance conferences in the same way that he bans critical discussion of Jews from his magazine and website—where, however, Jews are permitted to criticize whites.

“The problem for Taylor,” they write, “is that many of the most active participants at his conferences and the most committed members of the American radical right are passionately anti-Semitic. To ban them for their anti-Semitic views would be a devastating blow” to his organization.

So, that is evidently the dilemma they face at present.

Anti-Gay (5)

Evangelical Christian David Barton, 58

Messianic Jew Michael L. Brown, 57

Charismatic/Pentecostal Christian Lou Engle, 59

Reverend Bryan Fischer, 61

Jason “Molotov” Mitchell, 32

Samuel Wolfe, SPLC’s Lead LGBT Staff Attorney

If you search outside the SPLC’s narrow profiles—and sometimes even within them—it quickly becomes apparent that none of the persons classified as “anti-gay” are single-issue, with the exception, perhaps, of Messianic Jew Michael Brown.

I learned from the SPLC’s profile of Brown—I had not known it before—that the party line on homosexuality now is that homosexual child molesters such as college football coach Jerry Sandusky are not homosexual: “Researchers established long ago that chronic pedophiles like Sandusky [who is married] have no sexual interest in any adult and can’t be considered homosexual or heterosexual.”

Evidently that is why the words “homosexual” or “gay” appear nowhere in Wikipedia‘s long entry on Sandusky, and why “LGBT” is missing from the Categories section at the end of the article.

Because “anti-gay” is not what the people identified here are solely about, this category more correctly illustrates two developing trends in System ideology and policy.

One is the extension of the “hate” model of censorship to any criticism of homosexuality.

The other is an expanding anti-Christian agenda. Several people listed under other ideological categories are also essentially conservative Christian activists. No matter how tame or even non- or anti-Christian the religion becomes, the Jews’ hatred of it is never curbed.

One listee, Bryan Fischer, illustrates how the System, having decimated the ranks of white nationalism and the radical right, is now busy tightening the noose on mainstream Christians and conservatives.

Fischer is a nationally syndicated Christian radio host, pastor, official of the pusillanimous American Family Association founded by Donald Wildmon, and former chaplain of the Idaho State Senate. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Dallas Theological Seminary.

Yet Jews are determined to sever the AFA from him in order to push the organization even further away from historic Christianity.

Wikipedia states that “Fischer opposes abortion, national health care, environmentalism, gay adoption, and same-sex marriage. Fischer’s controversial comments on racial and ethnic minorities were cited by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in explaining the hate group designation they gave to the AFA in November 2010.”

In its profile of Fischer the SPLC smirks that after the 61-year-old Christian minister wrote an AFA Internet piece critical of Amerindians, “A young AFA staffer, Elijah Friedeman, 17, issued his own statement on the AFA blog, in which he called Fischer’s claims ‘repulsive.'”

I’ve moved into this category Randal Lee Krager, the founder and leader of the “neo-Nazi skinhead group Volksfront,” classified separately by the SPLC as a “Racist Skinhead.”

In its Gulett profile, the SPLC notes that Richard Butler’s Aryan Nations was “wrecked by a 2000 SPLC lawsuit”—one of many private associations destroyed by the organization in this way over the decades.

With government help, Jews have found innumerable ways to deny whites, de facto, their First Amendment rights prior to the explicit, de jure criminalization of speech and association that has already taken place in other countries.

The designation “neo-Nazi” for Alex Linder is nonsensical because he is anti-National Socialist and anti-fascist. Essentially, he is a classical liberal.

The SPLC’s real beef is that Linder is fiercely anti-Jewish, even going so far as to advocate the extermination of the best of all people.

In its profile of skinhead leader Randal Lee Krager the Jewish organization coolly states that in 2007 “local anti-fascists” in Portland, Oregon told his neighbors about his family’s “racist beliefs” after Krager helped organize Hammerfest, a planned major skinhead concert, in the area—which “anti-fascists” ultimately thwarted.

The following year Krager moved with his wife and son to Florida after “anti-fascist activists” exposed the couple’s beliefs and associations to their neighbors and Krager’s employer. In other words, the Leftist thugs got him fired from his job and run out of town.

Such actions constitute serious civil rights violations if perpetrated by whites against any member of the most powerful ethnic group in America, Jews, or non-whites, all of whom are legally privileged. Yet the government contends that such violations are not prosecutable or actionable if committed by violent “private” racist groups against whites. The SPLC is extremely comfortable with this state of affairs.

This raises the question of the existence, behavior, and funding of the murky, transnational “antifa” domestic terrorist network and its relationship to governments (in some countries, such as Norway, it is publicly funded), official anti-white policies of states, and powerful Jewish organizations and Left-wing groups.

Anti-Muslim (3)

Ex-Defense Department official Frank Gaffney, 59

Pam Geller, 54 (Jewish)

Orthodox Jewish attorney David Yerushalmi, 55

Mother of four Pam Geller—evidently Orthodox Jews aren’t the only members of the tribe reproducing beyond their replacement rate—is the co-head with American-born Levantine Robert Spencer of Stop Islamization of America.

She is criticized by the SPLC for taking “a strongly pro-Israel stance to the point of being sharply critical of Jewish liberals” (emphasis added). Of course, the SPLC has no qualms about being sharply critical of her.

The SPLC “links” Geller to Norwegian revolutionary Anders Breivik because he cited her work (along with that of many, many others) in his Web-published manifesto, 2083: A European Declaration of Independence (2011). (For use in your own writing and speaking, you should study the “links and ties” and other rhetorical techniques routinely employed by Jews highly-versed in the art of group defamation. The accusers, thick with their own fleas, can easily be skewered by the same methods.)

Geller and her ex-husband Michale Oshry were co-owners with a man named Christ Tsiropoulous of at least two New York City auto dealerships before they divorced in 2007. That year one of their salesmen was gunned down at a dealership they owned called Universal Auto World. According to the SPLC:

The investigation into the murder uncovered an alleged fraud ring. According to the New York Daily News, [dealership] employees enabled “underground characters,” including “known” drug dealers, to buy luxury cars using fake identities. Eleven people who worked for the dealership, including Tsiropoulous, were arrested, but Geller escaped the scandal unscathed. According to The New York Times, she received a $4 million divorce settlement, a portion of $1.8 million from the sale of the Long Island home and then a $5 million life insurance payment when Oshry died a few months after remarrying in 2008. The criminal case has not moved forward since the 2008 arrests.

David Yerushalmi, an Orthodox Jew associated with Pam Geller and Frank Gaffney, is disliked because he “rails against liberal Jews and the ‘progressive elites'” they influence. He has “repeatedly collaborated” with Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center, a “Christian Right” law firm. The two men recently formed the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a self-described “Judeo-Christian public interest law firm.”

The inclusion on the list of three anti-Islamic Zionist extremists, two of whom are Jews, reflects an underlying fissure within the Jewish community. Over the centuries Jews have often enlisted the power of the king or the state to quell dissent within their own ranks.

The SPLC is gambling that continued Islamic immigration and social and legal preferences for Muslims will remain good for American Jews and bad for whites and Christians without seriously harming Israeli or domestic Jewish interests.

But, as Tomislav Sunic recently noted, “Since it can be legally and professionally harmful to lambaste non-White immigrants, let alone criticize out in the open European and American Jewry (e.g., for the support of multiculturalism), many Europeans and American nationalists hide their criticism of the multicultural system behind their criticism of Islam.”

This is what the SPLC fears. It wants to nip that tendency in the bud because it could get out of hand.

Neo-Confederate (2)

The League of the South’s Michael Hill, 61

Baptist pastor John Weaver, 67, of the Council of Conservative Citizens and Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Black Separatist (1)

New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, 46

The only black on the list is included because he has “a long well-documented history of violently anti-Semitic remarks.”

He is also anti-white.

For a glimpse at the racial makeup of key faces behind the blank, police state monolith of the SPLC, I strongly recommend perusal of this web page.

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The SPLC is gambling that continued Islamic immigration and social and legal preferences for Muslims will remain good for American Jews and bad for whites and Christians without seriously harming Israeli or domestic Jewish interests.

This strategy has already backfired in Europe and even America (anyone remember Major Hasan?), but I think this what they want, “invade the World, and invite the World” is going to be the West modus operandi from now on.

No matter how tame or even non- or anti-Christian the religion becomes, the Jews’ hatred of it is never curbed.

True. Christianity still outranks WN/NS and militant Islam in the hierarchy of enemies. It’s interesting that this should be so at a time when Christianity has been culturally marginalised and mainstream Catholics and Protestants, under the spell of uncritical judeophilia, are bending over backwards to appease the rabbis.

I am thankful that I accidentally found your web site or cesspool as it were; I have just increased my monthly donations to the SPLC and NAACP. In reality it really may not be necessary to donate more as your kind is on the run and will soon be seen as enemies of the state, but it makes me feel better none the less.

I’ve always been fascinated by the question of their honesty. I mean, do the SPLC/ADL/Licra/… really believe in what they do, in their humanist fight, or is this a complete front for advancing Jewish interests, just like Genco’s Olive Oil Company is a front for the Corleone in The Godfather?

What is certain is that you see Jewish expertise and professionalism at play in all of these organizations. They have perfectly understood that the best way to silence someone is not actually refuting his arguments, but excommunicating him and/or looking down on him using the seal of authority. So you get beautifully crafted websites with nice color themes, “files” to mimic the functioning of an important State organization, partnerships with law enforcement, a spotless English, etc.

Of course we could do exactly the same ourselves, minus the partnerships with law enforcement.

“Talk radio host Alex Jones is characterized as a “conspiracy”-minded libertarian who “exploits racial animosities.” The authors miss the irony of those charges.”

It’s a reflex by now; they actually have nothing else to say. I can’t tell how many “experts” or even “reporters” I’ve heard blaming “conspiracy theories” for the current ME unpleasantness. The only distinctions are that some say the “Arab Spring” released such “elements”, so it was bad and we need the strong men back in charge, or, that the people aren’t to blame, because they’ve been ruled by the strong men who fed them conspiracy theories for years [actual comment from CNN “reporter”] Again, the ‘heads I win tails you lose’ set up is not noticed by them, and is indeed characteristic of the Judaic strategy: you always win if you control both sides of the argument.

Comparison with the ex-Soviet Union is interesting. Alt-Righters have noted, from Yockey to Faye, that contrary to “anti-Communism” it’s in the Soviet bloc that Western culture, values, tradition has been preserved. From the MSM perspective, that means they have “suffered” from “censorship” and “brainwashing” unlike we in the West, who, of course, are the real sufferers from brainwashing and censorship, however, the latter being in the name of Christian Zionism is considered “common sense”.

This is why the Arab street reacts to movies like this: they see the hypocrisy and double standard. Mel Gibson is vilified, while an anti-Muslim film is “free speech”. Free from Zionist indoctrination, They Can See. Also, used to state, or at least, socially controlled media, they assume anything published in the West must be officially sanctioned. Which again, is true; informally, even if not deliberately [the later would be a real ‘conspiracy theory’ which is not necessary; no need for secret groups or meetings, just make sure everyone thinks alike — thanks to groups like SPLC — and the rest will follow].

All discourse around “racism” serves only one purpose: to keep Whites in line with the liberal project of their cultural, legal, moral, demographic and monetary dispossession. That is all there is to it. Nothing more.

As Burnham’s Law points out, a society infected with liberalism is morally disarmed when faced with any group which liberals perceive to be less well off than liberals. The outcome is that such a society will be in utter thrall to and eventually under the control of its most restive and disruptive minorities.

Liberalism is indeed the ideology of societal suicide.

Only White states are liberal. If there are any non-White countries actually run on liberal values, –and not just UN-style fakery–I’d like to know what they are. No one but Whites would be morally blind enough to follow a set of untethered “values” that took their own tribe over a cliff.

Liberals –and religious ones are the worst– are fond of saying things like “The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members.” That’s true, but not in the way they mean. Because a huge percentage of those encompassed by that pious phrase are its most dysfunctional, draining and irreformable, a society that becomes obsessed with “its most vulnerable members” has lost its sanity

Indeed that web site link is fascinating. I did not know that Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt were jews. That certainly explains the current perversion of climate science. Thank goodness for the White scientists who are questioning that new religion. I am not questioning the environmental problems we have, just that computer models (hello garbage in, garbage out) and carbon credits are not going to solve it.

That was an excellent piece. Many interesting ideas come out of it, but one somehow stands out, i.e. the use of the unchallenged false premise.

Sandusky is referenced above as not being homosexual. Regardless of the reasons evinced, here is one to try on for size a la devils’ advocate and for fun – so let’s run the ‘logic’ like this: homosexuals do not molest boys, it is a stereotype, a lie, something haters portray. Therefore if it is accepted that if he did molest anyone, he is not homo, therefore reworking the stats on these things we see that indeed homosexuals are not molesters. And if during his trial – if he ever gets one – and he is somehow acquitted, he IS homo after all but not a molester and that in turn further demonstrates that gays are (a) innocent etc. and (b) unfairly targeted by haters, (c) all molesters are hetero, etc. There is circularity here…

Let’s take it into other areas. Black people are not violent. Therefore crime statistics are skewed via a racist bias. All crime therefore is committed by others – whites – racist hate and stereotypes notwithstanding.

Mexicans are not loafers living off white taxpayer paid social services. They work hard and pay taxes. Therefore all loafers are whites living off mexicans etc.

Women have the same abilities and upper body strength as men. Therefore they are kept out of male professional sports etc. due to misogyny and fear of being exceeded.

Blacks and browns are just as intelligent and creative as whites. Therefore history as perceived and written is false and/or whites everywhere and always have held those of color back and prevented them from reaching their potential.

Every one of these premises are already being pushed and shoved to one degree or another throughout our society, but the logical extensions are not yet entirely pursued.

One would be hard pressed to find many academics, republicans, journalists, or others in influential positions who would actually challenge any of the premises above. One can easily see media, academics, and others taking the false premise and running with it in the full knowledge that nobody will dare challenge it out of fear of ‘racist!’ etc. flak coming their way. A whole body, indeed a giant edifice, of false knowledge and statistic-laden crapola will pile up to further convince and intimidate while the left-antiwhite agendas surge forward. Or put another way, it is more of the same via still more illogical false precepts that go unchallenged.

I take it for granted that adults who molest children of the same sex are homosexual, and those who molest children of the opposite sex are heterosexual. The reason the SPLC, the government, academia, and the Left take the position they do is obvious; they’re pushing an ideological agenda.

In addition to the Dirkhising case mentioned by Lew—which William Pierce picked up on at the time—there was another case I found even more striking, but which WNs never talked about that I recall.

That was the rape-murder by two homosexuals of a young boy named Jeffrey Curley in Boston.

That murder had all of the elements of the Dirkhising case plus a few more.

For one thing, the two killers had been reading information put out by the National Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). In other words, it was precisely analogous to Jews and government looking at the computer files, books, magazines, or words of whites and, after discovering “hate” thoughts, ratcheting up the resulting sentence far beyond what a normal criminal would get for committing the identical act.

This is intended as a stepping stone to full-blown hate speech laws, because all of the necessary elements of searching for and penalizing “hate” will have become deeply institutionalized in law enforcement, courts, politics, the media, academia, etc.

And, just think: Jewish hate, black hate, etc.–all such ideas also have consequences.

But, lo and behold, two neoconservative Jewish attorneys, one of them Harvey Silvergate of the ACLU (he’s also associated with FIRE, I think), intervened on NAMBLA’s behalf because, to allow the parents to sue or recover for the death of their son would impermissibly “chill” freedom of speech!

I kid you not.

Jews, and the government that facilitates this crap, are goddamned disgusting. Both know EXACTLY what they’re doing.

I learned from the SPLC’s profile of Brown—I had not known it before—that the party line on homosexuality now is that homosexual child molesters such as college football coach Jerry Sandusky are not homosexual: “Researchers established long ago that chronic pedophiles like Sandusky [who is married] have no sexual interest in any adult and can’t be considered homosexual or heterosexual.”

Evidently that is why the words “homosexual” or “gay” appear nowhere in Wikipedia‘s long entry on Sandusky, and why “LGBT” is missing from the Categories section at the end of the article.

This effort to downplay and whitewash homosexual pedophilia has been going on for years. For a virtuoso performance of dishonest editing in the service of this agenda, see the murder of Jesse Dirkhising on Wikipedia.

Summary:

Jesse Dirkhising was killed in a gruesome rape, sex and torture murder. He was 13. The killers were a homosexual male couple.

His murder was contemporaneous with Matthew Shepard’s murder but received no national attention.

Instead of describing the killers as gay or homosexual men, wikipedia notes:

the cases were dissimilar in several important details. While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor and the victim of a sex crime, while Shepard, an adult, was murdered as part of a hate crime.[7][11] While homosexuality has been cited as an issue in both cases, the circumstances were different and in contrast: Shepard was an openly gay man who was attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising was raped by two men who were described as “lovers” in a police affidavit.[12][13]

I find the extent to which the Department of Homeland Security — a government agency — has absorbed Jews and Jewish organizations into its actual inner workings completely extraordinary. It’s my understanding that the SPLC is officially a DHS partner or sub-group. Another one is the Jewish Orthodox Union – this article refers to “a new partnership between DHS and Jewish community organizations – including the Orthodox Union. The alliance marks the first time the governmental security agency has teamed up with a faith-based community to address the threat of terrorism.” The Jewish octopus just keeps digging its tentacles in, and nobody seems to notice.

Back when JINSA and CSP were on every WN tongue, the is-he-or-isn’t-he query regarding Frank Gaffney finally stopped on yes, he is. Certainly he’s a major player in pretty much every single pro-Jewish pro-Israel initiative and action that’s going on. Here’s a profile only a year old: http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/gaffney_frank.

I believe the building pictured above has been sardonically called “the poverty palace”; it is certainly a very large and expensive building. Groups like the SPLC and the ADL are very well funded. According to recent figures published by the American Institute of Philanthropy’s list of “Top 25 Compensation Packages” (http://www.charitywatch.org/hottopics/Top25.html), Abraham Foxman receives an annual salary of nearly $720,000 for finding anti-Semitism everywhere and loudly quacking Jewish canards. (Incidentally, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, is paid over $780,000, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is paid nearly $760,000, and David Harris of the American Jewish Committee is paid nearly $740,000.)

the words “homosexual” or “gay” appear nowhere in Wikipedia‘s long entry on Sandusky, and why “LGBT” is missing from the Categories section at the end of the article.

Because “anti-gay” is not what the people identified here are solely about, this category more correctly illustrates two developing trends in System ideology and policy.

One is the extension of the “hate” model of censorship to any criticism of homosexuality.

The other is an expanding anti-Christian agenda.

From the SPLC:

A new California law that prohibits mental health providers from subjecting LGBT children and teens to therapy intended to change their sexual orientation is an important step toward stopping a dangerous and discredited practice, the Southern Poverty Law Center said today.

Beginning Jan. 1, California will no longer permit therapists to use “conversion” therapy, sometimes known as reparative or sexual reorientation therapy, on minors.